~ NYC
~ walking home from work
~ 23 year old Asian woman
~ raped
A registered sex offender is facing a new set of charges after police caught him raping an Asian woman at a Manhattan construction site on Wednesday.
The scene: New York police had to physically pull Darryl Phelps, 61, off the woman at around 1:30 a.m. under scaffolding at a construction site on West 28th Street near Eighth Avenue in Chelsea. A witness who saw the attack called 911.
The victim said she was walking home when Phelps punched her face, the New York Daily News reported. The suspect, who stands at6 feet and weighs 200 pounds, then raped her while he was “holding her down on the ground.”
“I want you to have my baby,” Phelps allegedly told the victim, according to the New York Post. He was still raping her when officers arrived on the scene.
The victim, a 23-year-old restaurant worker, was taken to Lenox Health Greenwich Village. She sustained a bruised eye but was brought to the medical care facility in stable condition,
However, a police source told the New York Post that “she’s not mentally OK after that.”